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ISAAC P. TCE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

Letters Patent No. 72,702, .dated December 24, 1867.

IMPROVEMENT SPIRIT-METERS.

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, ISAAC P. TICE, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented anew and useful Improvement in Spirit-Meters, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, forming part of'this specification, and in which- Figure l represents aside elevation of a meter, or meter in part, in illustration of my improvement, and

Figures 2 and 3 are sectional elevations, at right angles to each other, of the same, the latter section being taken through the line yy in-g. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

This, my invention, has reference to measuring the spirit passed through the meter by its specific gravity, or weight in proportion to a given volume, and .consists in determining the same by the weight of the surplus over and above vthe amount required to fill a weighing or measuring-can of a given capacity.

Referring to the accompanying drawing, A represents a common receptacle of spirit from the still, which passes from the same by a spout, a, to a weighing-can, 1B, of a tilting character, and divided by a diaphragm, b, into chambers, c and d, and hung on a weighted lever, e, as on a fulcrum, at f, to discharge, as it tilts alternately in opposite directions, into a receiver, C, as in other tilting and wsighing-arrangements. This can is so weighted or hung as that, in the case of the Huid passing being water, it will tilt or tip to discharge so soon as either of the chambeisc or d becomes illed; but in case of spirit or diluted spirit, then, a greater volume being required to vgive the necessary weightto tilt the can, the same is provided, for by an overow or surplus quantity acting on the can totilt or tip it, as in a previous invention ofmine, 'the chambers c and d delivering, as the can tilts, by spout-s y, into one division, t, of the receiver` C, while the overflow or surplus contained withintrays D discharges, by spouts i, into the other division, JQ-of said receiver, as also in a previous arrangement or arrangements.

From this description, it willbe seen that the can B only tilts when-a suticient weighthas been thrown upon it, which, in the case of spirit or diluted spirit, will not take place tilla sutlicent quantity (dependent upon the specific gravity or Strength of the spirit) has passed into the overiow or surplus-trays D, to give the necessary weight to tilt the can B. The volume of spirit from the chambers c and passes of?, as before observed, by spouts g, into one division, 7L, of the receiver C, and from thence, by a spout, 7c, into a receiver, Efinto which, also, the overiow or surplus discharged by the spouts z'delivers, by a spout, l, but not direct, such delivery being'through the intervention of a weighing-can, F, of a weighted tilting character, and formed of chambers m n, operating as or after the fashion of other weighing-cans. In this way, it will be seen, only the surplus or overow'is weighed; but as the necessary weight to tilt the can B is known, the weight indicated and registered by the can F, taken in connection with the discharge from the ehambersc and d of the can B, will give the specific gravity or strength of the spirit,'the weight of the overlow which governs the lifting action of the can B determining the sume, and being ascertained and recorded through a suitable register by the second weighing-can, F

What is here claimed, and desired to be secured by Letters Patent, is-

Registering the specific gravity or vstrength of the spirit passing through the meter by means of weighingcans, se arranged and operating as that the evcriow or surplus of the onecan is weighed and recorded by the second, While the main contents-of such first any are diverted from passing through the second or lower can,

substantially as specified.

ISAAC l?. TICE.

Witnesses:

A. Ln CLERC, J. W. Cocinas. 

